"figure, but she did damn all for empowering women. She didn’t surround herself with any women whatsoever or encourage women to come into politics or do anything in particular. She could have been a quite wonderful role model."" Honor Blackman Honor Blackman (born 22 August 1925) is an English actress, widely known for the roles of Cathy Gale in ""The Avengers"" (1962–64), Bond girl Pussy Galore in ""Goldfinger"" (1964), Julia Daggett in ""Shalako"" (1968) and Hera in ""Jason and the Argonauts"" (1963). She is also notable for her role as Laura West in the ITV sitcom ""The Upper Hand"" (1990–1996)."
"Pussy Galore Pussy Galore is a fictional character in the 1959 Ian Fleming James Bond novel ""Goldfinger"" and the 1964 film of the same name. In the film, she is played by Honor Blackman. The character returns in the 2015 Bond continuation novel ""Trigger Mortis"" by Anthony Horowitz, set in the 1950s two weeks after the events of ""Goldfinger"". Blanche Blackwell, a Jamaican of Anglo-Jewish descent, is thought to have been the love of Fleming's later life and his model for Pussy Galore. In Fleming's 1959 novel ""Goldfinger"", Pussy Galore is the only woman in the United States known to"
"Mrs. Peel was introduced as a replacement for the popular Cathy Gale, played by actress Honor Blackman. Blackman left the programme at the end of the third season to co-star in the James Bond film ""Goldfinger"". Elizabeth Shepherd was initially cast as Emma Peel and production on the fourth series began. After filming all of one episode and part of a second, the producers decided that Shepherd was not right for the part, and she was dismissed. No footage of Shepherd as Peel is known to have survived. The producers scrambled to replace her and gave the job to Diana"
"and her experiences as an African American woman during the 1960s. Gloria Hendry Gloria Hendry (born March 3, 1949), also known inaccurately as Gloria Henry, is an American actress and former Playboy model. She is best known for her roles in films from the 1970s, most notably: portraying Rosie Carver in 1973's James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", which was Roger Moore's first Bond film; and Helen Bradley in the blaxploitation film ""Black Caesar"", and the sequel, ""Hell Up in Harlem"". Hendry began her acting career in the 1968 Sidney Poitier film ""For Love of Ivy"", followed by a"
"Gloria Hendry Gloria Hendry (born March 3, 1949), also known inaccurately as Gloria Henry, is an American actress and former Playboy model. She is best known for her roles in films from the 1970s, most notably: portraying Rosie Carver in 1973's James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", which was Roger Moore's first Bond film; and Helen Bradley in the blaxploitation film ""Black Caesar"", and the sequel, ""Hell Up in Harlem"". Hendry began her acting career in the 1968 Sidney Poitier film ""For Love of Ivy"", followed by a small role in the 1970 film ""The Landlord"". In 1973 she"
"is typically a high-profile part that can sometimes give a major boost to the career of unestablished actresses, although a number of Bond girls were well-established beforehand. For instance, Diana Rigg and Honor Blackman were both cast as Bond girls after they had already become stars in the United Kingdom for their roles in the television series, ""The Avengers"". In addition, Halle Berry won an Academy Award in 2002—the award was presented to her while she was filming ""Die Another Day"". Teri Hatcher was already known for her role as Lois Lane in the television series """" before she was"
"portrayed the Bond girl Rosie Carver in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"". In that film, she became the first African American woman to become romantically involved with 007; Trina Parks, who played a nemesis to Bond rather than a love interest in ""Diamonds Are Forever"" (the previous Bond film) is considered to be the first African-American Bond girl. When ""Live and Let Die"" was first released in South Africa, her love scenes with Roger Moore were cut out because it was prohibited by the Apartheid government. She later starred in several 1970s blaxploitation films, including ""Across 110th"
"Ryder was voted the best Bond Girl by ""Entertainment Weekly"". Author Anthony Horowitz named his James Bond tribute character Alex Rider after Honeychile Rider. Honey Ryder Honeychile Rider is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel ""Dr. No"". In the 1962 Bond film of the same name, her name was shortened and changed to Honey Ryder. In the film, she is played by Swiss actress Ursula Andress and due to her heavy accent was dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl. In the film series, Ryder is widely regarded as the first Bond girl, although she is not the"
"Tracy Bond Teresa ""Tracy"" Bond (born Teresa ""Tracy"" Draco, and also known as the Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo) is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the 1963 James Bond novel ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", and its 1969 film adaptation. She is the only Bond girl to actually marry 007. In the film version, Tracy is played by actress Diana Rigg. Born Teresa Draco in 1943, she is the only child of Marc-Ange Draco, the head of the Union Corse, a powerful Corsican crime syndicate – not quite as large as SPECTRE, but with substantially larger ""legal"""
"guitarist Joe Walsh. !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| James Bond Barbara Bach Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey, formerly Countess Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna, (born Barbara Goldbach; August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model who played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in the James Bond film ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977) as well as the spy Maritza Petrović in ""Force 10 from Navarone"" (1978). She has been married to Ringo Starr since April 1981. Bach was born in Rosedale, Queens, and grew up in Jackson Heights, the daughter of Marjorie (1921–1997) and Howard I. Goldbach (1922–2001), a policeman. Her mother was"
"for all of Fleming's Bond girls may be his onetime lover Muriel Wright, who according to ""The Times"" Wright was 26 and ""exceptionally beautiful"" when she and Fleming met in 1935. A talented rider, skier, and polo player, Wright was independently wealthy and a model. She was devoted to Fleming, despite his repeated unfaithfulness. She died in an air raid in 1944, devastating Fleming, who called Wright ""too good to be true"". Ursula Andress (as Honey Ryder) in ""Dr. No"" (1962) is widely regarded as the first Bond girl, although she was preceded by both Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench"
"featured in the musical play ""Mr & Mrs"". In 1983 she sang as Juno in a special TV production of Jacques Offenbach's ""Orpheus in the Underworld."" On 6 July 2009, Blackman released a new single, ""The Star Who Fell from Grace"", composed by Jeff Chegwin and Adrian Munsey. In it she compered a James Bond prom as part of the ""Welsh Proms"" concert series. Blackman appeared in the ""Doctor Who"" audio drama ""The Children of Seth,"" in which she plays the role of Anahita, released in December 2011. Blackman has married twice. She was married to Bill Sankey from 1948–56."
"Joan Blackman Joan Blackman (born May 17, 1938 in San Francisco, California) is an American actress. Blackman appeared in her first motion picture, ""Good Day for a Hanging"", in 1959. She had a significant role in two Elvis Presley films. She played Maile Duval in the 1961 film ""Blue Hawaii"" and the following year played Rose Grogan in ""Kid Galahad"". She also appeared with Dean Martin in ""Career"" (1959), and played Ellen Spelding, the love interest of Kreton, the character of Jerry Lewis in ""Visit to a Small Planet"" (1960). Her other film appearances included roles in ""The Great Impostor"""
"Eunice Gayson Eunice Gayson (born Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison; 17 March 1928 – 8 June 2018) was an English actress best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's love interest in the first two Bond films (""Dr. No"" and ""From Russia with Love"") and is therefore considered to have been the first-ever ""Bond girl"". Gayson was born on as Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison on 17 March 1928 in Streatham, London, to John and Maria Sargaison (née Gammon). Her father was a civil servant. The family moved to Purley, Surrey and later Glasgow, before settling in Edinburgh. There she attended the Edinburgh Academy"
"Honey Ryder Honeychile Rider is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel ""Dr. No"". In the 1962 Bond film of the same name, her name was shortened and changed to Honey Ryder. In the film, she is played by Swiss actress Ursula Andress and due to her heavy accent was dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl. In the film series, Ryder is widely regarded as the first Bond girl, although she is not the first woman in the film to be with Bond (that distinction belongs to Sylvia Trench, while Miss Taro was Bond's first mission-related ""conquest""). Her"
"Jinx (James Bond) Giacinta ""Jinx"" Johnson is a fictional character in the ""James Bond"" franchise, first appearing in ""Die Another Day"", portrayed by Halle Berry. The character, the first heroic African-American Bond girl, has received critical acclaim, and is regarded among one of the best Bond girls of the series. Jinx is an NSA agent assigned to kill the rogue North Korean agent Zao, who is undergoing gene-replacement therapy at the Alvarez clinic in Cuba. The night before confronting Zao, she has a one-night stand with James Bond, who is also after Zao in the hope of extracting the identity"
"Bond girl,"" but in another article UGO praised her as ""Bond's super-hot guardian angel"". Den of Geek included her in their 2008 list of ten ""James Bond"" characters who deserve their own spin-off. Aki (James Bond) Aki is a fictional character created for the 1967 ""James Bond"" film ""You Only Live Twice"". In the film, Aki, played by Akiko Wakabayashi, is a female ninja agent with the fictional Japanese Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). She is a love interest and ally of James Bond's, however she is killed before the mission reaches its climax and is replaced by her fellow agent"
"Barbara Bach Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey, formerly Countess Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna, (born Barbara Goldbach; August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model who played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in the James Bond film ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977) as well as the spy Maritza Petrović in ""Force 10 from Navarone"" (1978). She has been married to Ringo Starr since April 1981. Bach was born in Rosedale, Queens, and grew up in Jackson Heights, the daughter of Marjorie (1921–1997) and Howard I. Goldbach (1922–2001), a policeman. Her mother was Irish Catholic, while her father was Jewish"
"famed Bond girl Ursula Andress, Raquel Welch or Angelique Pettyjohn, the drill-thrall from the original """" episode ""The Gamesters of Triskelion"". However, Andress proved indifferent, and both Welch and Pettyjohn were unavailable or uninterested. Filming was to commence in May 1967, but as late as April 17 Charlton Heston noted in his diary, ""The casting problem's really Nova: who will do it, and how naked can she be. The tests I saw were not good."" Zanuck asked producers Arthur P. Jacobs and Mort Abrahams if they would test Harrison. ""[Dick] did it very nicely,"" Abrahams said. ""He said, 'I'd like"
"James Bond falls in love with the Bond girl. The first was ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" (1969), in which Countess Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) marries Bond but is shot dead by Irma Bunt and Ernst Stavro Blofeld at the story's end. The second was Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) in ""Casino Royale"" (2006). Bond confesses his love to her and resigns from MI6 so that they can have a normal life together. He later learns that she had been a double agent working for his enemies. The enemy organisation Quantum had kidnapped her former lover and had been blackmailing"
"Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers); millionaire spy Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress); Bond's secretary Miss Moneypenny (Barbara Bouchet); Mata Bond (Joanna Pettet), Bond's daughter by Mata Hari; and British agents ""Coop"" (Terence Cooper) and ""The Detainer"" (Daliah Lavi). Charles K. Feldman, the producer, had acquired the film rights in 1960 and had attempted to get ""Casino Royale"" made as an Eon Productions Bond film; however, Feldman and the producers of the Eon series, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, failed to come to terms. Believing that he could not compete with the Eon series, Feldman resolved to produce the film as a"
"character, Berry described Jinx as ""fashion-forward modern and the next step in the evolution of women in the Bond movies. She's more modern and not the classic villain."" Jinx was voted the fourth toughest Bond girl on-screen of all time in an ITV poll. Jinx (James Bond) Giacinta ""Jinx"" Johnson is a fictional character in the ""James Bond"" franchise, first appearing in ""Die Another Day"", portrayed by Halle Berry. The character, the first heroic African-American Bond girl, has received critical acclaim, and is regarded among one of the best Bond girls of the series. Jinx is an NSA agent assigned"
"Karin Dor. She was the first German Bond girl, appearing in ""You Only Live Twice"" (1967). British actor Stewart Granger starred in ""Red Dragon"" (1965), ""Target for Killing"" (1966) with Adolfo Celi from ""Thunderball"", and ""Requiem for a Secret Agent"" (1966) in Italy along with Daniela Bianchi. In addition to the James Bond film ""From Russia with Love"" (1963), Bianchi made the Italian spy films ""Code Name: Tiger"" (1964), ""Special Mission Lady Chaplin"" (1966), and two 007 parodies: ""Balearic Caper"" (1966), and the previously mentioned ""O.K. Connery"" (1967). Sergio Sollima, who directed ""Requiem for a Secret Agent"", also helmed two"
"Maud Adams Maud Solveig Christina Adams (née Wikström; born 12 February 1945), is a Swedish actress, known for her roles as two different Bond girls, first in ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1974) and then as the eponymous character in ""Octopussy"" (1983), as well as making a brief uncredited appearance in ""A View to a Kill"" (1985). Adams was born Maud Solveig Christina Wikström in Luleå, Sweden, the daughter of Thyra, a government tax inspector, and Gustav Wikström, a comptroller. She had once wanted to work as an interpreter as she is fluent in five languages. She was discovered"
"use three Bond girls: The first should die ""preferably in Bond's arms"" early, the second a villain whom Bond seduces before she dies in an unusual and gory way midway, and the third survives to the end of the film. In several, the Bond girl is revealed, after her tryst with Bond, to be a villainess. Examples are Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera) in ""Never Say Never Again"" (1983), Elektra King (Sophie Marceau) in ""The World Is Not Enough"" (1999), and Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) in ""Die Another Day"" (2002). As of 2013 there have been only two films in which"
"Ursula Andress Ursula Andress (; born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss film and television actress, former model and sex symbol, who has appeared in American, British and Italian films. She is best known for her breakthrough role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, ""Dr. No"". She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film ""Casino Royale"". Her other films include ""The Southern Star, Fun in Acapulco"", ""She"", ""The 10th Victim"", ""The Blue Max"", ""Perfect Friday"", ""The Sensuous Nurse"", ""The Mountain of the Cannibal God"", ""The Fifth Musketeer"" and ""Clash of the Titans""."
"who called it ""an imaginative mini-franchise."" The mini-franchise moved from Showtime to the Sci Fi Channel with 22 one-hour episodes of ""Black Scorpion"". Joan Severance was replaced by the former Miss Kansas, Michelle Lintel, a then virtual-unknown in entertainment. The series also featured Adam West, television's original ""Batman,"" as Black Scorpion's asthmatic arch enemy the Breathtaker. Nevius also wrote the part of Clockwise, another supervillain, for Frank Gorshin (TV's ""Riddler"") to play. The series was notable for also casting several Playboy Playmates and models as ""Bad Girls"" including Victoria Silvstedt, Patricia Ford and Julie McCullough. The series won a Golden"
"par with her co-star, or she would leave the show. The producers gave in, thanks to the show's great popularity in the US. At the end of the fifth series in 1967, Rigg left to pursue other projects. This included following Honor Blackman to play a leading role in a James Bond film, in this case ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" as James Bond's wife Tracy Bond. Rigg and Macnee remained lifelong friends. On 25 October 2015, to mark 50 years of Emma Peel, the BFI (British Film Institute) screened an episode of ""The Avengers"" followed by an onstage interview"
"Bond girls have some individual traits (at least in their literary forms), they also have a great many characteristics in common. One of these is age: The typical Bond girl is in her early to mid-twenties, roughly ten years younger than Bond, who seems to be perennially in his mid-thirties. Examples include Solitaire (25), Tatiana Romanova (24), Vivienne ""Viv"" Michel (23), and Kissy Suzuki (23). The youngest Bond girl (though she and Bond do not sleep together) may be Gala Brand; she is named for the cruiser in which her father is serving at the time of her birth. Bond's"
"It was also the first James Bond film featuring an African American Bond girl romantically involved with 007, Rosie Carver, who was played by Gloria Hendry. The film was a box office success and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ""Live and Let Die"", written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by their band Wings. Three MI6 agents are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, New Orleans and the Caribbean nation of San Monique, while monitoring"
"2016 event, Hillary Clinton attended and introduced Bond. Janet Jackson Mary J Blidge Judith Jamison Naomi Campbell Lena Waithe Tarana Burke Black Girls Rock! Black Girls Rock! is an annual award show, founded by former DJ and model Beverly Bond, that honors and promotes Black women in different fields involving music, entertainment, medicine, entrepreneurship and visionary aspects; the categorized awards include ""The 'Rock Star' Award,"" ""Social Humanitarian,"" ""Who Got Next?,"" ""Living Legend,"" ""Shot Caller,"" ""Trailblazer,"" ""Motivator,"" ""Young, Gifted & Black,"" ""Star Power,"" and ""Visionary."" The program also features musical performances by female recording artists in the R&B and Soul music"
"not immediately hit it off, but their friendship developed into a deeper and creative one. Fleming's marriage to Ann Charteris had suffered owing to her disapproval of the James Bond novels, and she was often away from the couple's home in Jamaica. Blackwell is believed by some to have been the inspiration for some of Fleming’s most memorable female characters; Pussy Galore and Honeychile Rider. Her brother sold land to Coward for his Jamaican houses. She was vivacious and attractive, lively and intelligent. She became friends with prominent figures and celebrities of the time including Errol Flynn, whom she met"
"in 1948, but the dates were changed by the publisher). The frame story sees Mina Harker and Allan Quatermain - now immortal after bathing in the fire of youth from """" - on their quest to recover the ""Black Dossier"", which contains the secret history of the now-disbanded League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The book starts with Mina Murray (going by the name Odette O'quim) at a bar in London, where MI5 Agent James ""Jimmy"" Bond (grandson of Campion Bond) attempts to seduce her, taking her to the decaying remains of the ""Ministry of Love"", once one of Big Brother's government"